SEC Chapter 257 Another Invitation
Chapter 257 Another Invitation
Chapter 257 Another Invitation
"Could it be...?!"
Thinking about the function of the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument, Xuan Ziwen quickly realized what Huo Yuhao wanted to do.
"You want to use the battle armor components as nodes in the Nine Transformations Soul Ribbon to provide yourself with enhancements?!"
Compared to the linked amplification soul guide matrix that Mingdetang had envisioned but failed because users could not withstand the enormous pressure, Huo Yuhao's idea this time was even more unprecedented.
Because the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument was created from the beginning by imitating the Seven-in-One Combination Technique, although it could not release the pseudo-martial soul true form like the Seven-in-One Combination Technique, the final effect was not much different from the Seven-in-One Martial Soul Combination Technique.
To everyone else, this soul tool was a soul tool used by the team.
Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, regarded each piece of battle armor as a node in the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument, progressing layer by layer, ultimately providing a huge boost to the wearer of the battle armor.
The strength of this amplification is enough to allow seven to nine Soul Kings to unleash a strike with their pseudo-Martial Soul True Form.
The linked amplification soul guidance matrix allows Huo Yuhao to possess soul power quality and overall qualities comparable to a Soul Saint, while the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument allows Huo Yuhao to unleash attack capabilities comparable to a Soul Saint's Martial Soul True Body.
At that time, what will be the difference between Huo Yuhao and the Soul Saint?
"Teacher Xuan, now all that's missing is you to complete the missing linked soul guidance matrix. I've already prepared the necessary rare metals and such."
As he spoke, Huo Yuhao took out a large stack of metals, which were specially prepared by Huo Yuhao for himself. They were three-in-one forging metals, mainly composed of silver moonstone and ice extreme divine crystal, with chaotic silver as an auxiliary.
"These metals..."
Xuan Ziwen touched his chin.
It seems that Huo Yuhao's side not only has some peculiar development directions, such as those novel uses of electricity, but now it seems that there are also new rare metals? I wonder where they got them from.
Huo Yuhao smiled and asked, "Is Xuan Ziwen interested in these metals?"
Xuan Ziwen said frankly, "Soul Masters are always interested in new things; the unknown means new directions."
"I didn't bring too much of this metal; I only brought some to make battle armor. However, I gave the rest to Teacher Xuan after I finished making the battle armor."
Xuan Ziwen politely replied, "How could I possibly accept that?"
After exchanging pleasantries, the two quickly turned their attention to the creation of the battle armor.
The master and apprentice worked overtime, spending three hours to complete the battle armor.
It should be noted that this battle armor is only equivalent to a level 5 soul tool, but its various internal functions overlap, causing the manufacturing difficulty to increase exponentially. Among them are fusion arrays and metal function arrays that neither the master nor the apprentice are very familiar with.
Xuan Ziwen handed the torso and limbs he had made to Huo Yuhao and said, "Take off the head armor you fused with before and put on this new one."
"OK."
Huo Yuhao nodded, silently controlling the head armor to emerge from his body, removing it, and replacing it with the newly made battle armor for fusion.
After integrating the battle armor from top to bottom, Huo Yuhao immediately summoned the battle armor.
Starting from the head, the battle armor slowly emerged from eight parts of Huo Yuhao's body, including his shoulders, torso, wrists, and calves, fitting snugly against his body.
"Well……"
Huo Yuhao checked his physical condition and his expression changed slightly.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao directly summoned his battle armor, but adding clothes created a problem.
The Sun Moon Empire's school uniform, stretched taut over the battle armor, looked somewhat bulky. Huo Yuhao quickly ran to the bathroom to change into a set of close-fitting training clothes.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's embarrassed expression, Xuan Ziwen laughed and said, "It seems there are still some areas where the use of battle armor needs improvement."
"For example, adding a close-fitting inner armor?"
"Teacher Xuan." Huo Yuhao walked out with a dark expression on his face.
At the same time, he took out a full-length mirror and placed it in front of him, examining the battle armor.
The battle armor is predominantly white with ice-blue accents, and in the gaps not covered by the armor, there are black undergarments.
As for the texture, there's not much to say. After all, it's the first version, mainly designed to achieve various functions. To save time, it was polished and is smooth without any texture.
Even during the production process, the two laymen did not consider the comfort of wearing the clothes, let alone make them suitable for the wearer.
Although Huo Yuhao had some knowledge of ancient armor from his previous life, he still faced many problems when designing battle armor.
For example, ancient armor was mostly made of woven plates, woven segment by segment like fish scales.
It's obvious that a Soul Master's battle armor cannot be made like this.
Because the internal soul guidance array must be continuously inscribed on rare metals, and because the soul guidance array is extremely complex, there are also limitations on the size of the armor.
Therefore, Huo Yuhao can only choose to inscribe the soul guidance array on eight parts: head, shoulders, wrists, torso, and calves.
In other words, the battle armor Huo Yuhao created could only cover these areas.
However, these are the main areas of impact during combat, so using battle armor to increase defense is the right choice.
As for the thighs and upper arms, they are partially protected by battle skirts derived from the torso and shoulder armor.
For anything else, it's best to stick to using the Soul Guidance Shield, since it's not the main part of the body that will collide with the enemy anyway.
Perhaps it can evolve into full-body armor in the future, but for now, it must sacrifice some of its effects in order to inscribe the soul guidance array.
"When you have time in the future, could you consider engraving some cool patterns on the battle armor? Besides that, could the shape of the battle armor be closer to that of everyday clothing?"
Looking around, Huo Yuhao felt that the current Dou Armor was not good-looking at all, far inferior to the comics he read back then.
Both are ice-type battle armor, but Wu Changkong's two-word battle armor, Tianbing, in the comics is far superior to mine. Moreover, the battle armor in the comics doesn't clash with clothing; instead, they complement and enhance each other.
Xuan Ziwen said somewhat anxiously, "Forget about whether it looks good or not, just try out the battle armor's functions to see if it works."
"understood."
Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and activated the soul guidance array inside the battle armor.
The amplification array activated first. Under the combined effect of the eight level-five amplification arrays, the various energies within Huo Yuhao's body were highly condensed. The originally overflowing energy suddenly dropped significantly, transforming into soul power with a condensation level approaching that of a Soul Saint.
Immediately afterwards, the metal-powered soul-guiding array, driven by soul power, burned metal to provide a large amount of metallic soul power, which then flowed to the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument and transformed into pure chaotic soul power.
A portion of the chaotic soul power continued to flow along the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument, gradually converging towards the torso, allowing Huo Yuhao to use it at will, enabling him to unleash a massive amount of soul power with each attack.
The other part merged into Huo Yuhao's body, continuously providing him with energy.
The dense soul power integrated into Huo Yuhao's body placed a huge burden on his body due to his physical condition, making it impossible for him to mobilize it at will. However, it could be injected into his soul rings to release soul skills.
The soul skill released in this way is truly close to the soul skill released by a Soul Saint.
"Try this invincible shield!"
Xuan Ziwen quickly cast a level seven invincible shield on Huo Yuhao.
Compared to other methods of testing Huo Yuhao's abilities, having Huo Yuhao activate the level seven soul-guiding shield is safer and more stable than any other method.
Although the Invincible Golden Body can only last for three seconds, the requirements for soul power to trigger it are extremely demanding. To activate the level seven Invincible Golden Body, one must have soul power at the Soul Saint level.
Huo Yuhao took the Invincible Shield and channeled the soul power provided by the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument into the Invincible Golden Body. The next moment, the golden body released its light, and a golden shield suddenly appeared.
Xuan Ziwen's eyes lit up. He stepped forward and gently touched the golden shield, his Soul Douluo-level soul power suddenly pressing down on Huo Yuhao.
"Not bad, not bad. It can withstand a level seven invincible shield, so it can indeed fight against a Soul Saint."
Huo Yuhao's weak voice rang out: "Teacher Xuan, stop pressing, I can't take it anymore."
Xuan Ziwen then noticed that Huo Yuhao's skin was starting to turn a little red, which was the bloodstains caused by the capillaries bursting due to the immense pressure.
Xuan Ziwen withdrew his right hand, took out a box of healing medicine, and tossed it to Huo Yuhao.
"As expected, even a Soul Master level cultivator is struggling to withstand such pressure? However, the design of the battle armor is clearly not flawed. Without the battle armor to share the burden, how could a Soul Master possibly withstand the impact of a Soul Saint level soul power?"
"However, once you reach Soul King level, you should be able to withstand this pressure more easily. Only then will you be able to truly use your battle armor to fight beyond your level."
Huo Yuhao took the medicine from Xuan Ziwen, sensed the life force contained within it, and then took one tablet.
For Huo Yuhao, who possesses the life-giving metal, the vitality provided by this pill was far from sufficient, but it was, after all, a token of his teacher's goodwill, so he symbolically took one.
Sure enough, in just a few minutes, the bloodstains on the skin had almost disappeared.
"With the appearance of this battle armor, the Soul Master Competition will be quite exciting from now on."
Xuan Ziwen picked up his water glass, took a sip, and said leisurely, "Soul Saint level combat power is extremely rare in the Soul Master Competition of all time. It usually appears in the form of a seven-in-one combination technique or a martial soul fusion technique."
"In another year, Shrek will probably win the championship again."
"It's hard to say."
Huo Yuhao calmly said, "According to the intelligence I have, the Sun Moon Empire will make its move in the next Soul Master Competition to start the war."
Xuan Ziwen's pupils contracted.
"The Soul Master Competition is such a great opportunity! The elite of the younger generation from across the continent will gather here."
Clang.
The water glass shattered on the floor, and Xuan Ziwen looked at Huo Yuhao in disbelief. "You mean, the Sun Moon Empire wants to use this opportunity to wipe out all the participants in the Soul Master Competition?"
Huo Yuhao said coldly, "If I were Xu Tianran, this would indeed be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even in the worst-case scenario, if the main battlefield becomes deadlocked and lasts for decades, the number of Title Douluo on the Douluo Continent would be almost gone."
"In a better scenario, using this group as bait to wipe out all the powerful figures who come to the rescue would be an excellent strategy. With the fixed-position soul-guided cannons, we could take away countless Douluo powerhouses in one go."
"How could this be..."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's conjecture, Xuan Ziwen looked disappointed.
Xuan Ziwen has always believed that soul tools are meant to improve lives, not just the lives of soul masters, but also the lives of ordinary people.
Take sealed baby bottles, for example. Compared to the benefits for Soul Masters, sealed baby bottles can truly allow ordinary people without Soul Power to enjoy the convenience of Soul Guidance Technology.
This was also Xuan Ziwen's original intention in researching sealed baby bottles.
Clearly, a war involving soul tools is something Xuan Ziwen does not want to see.
"Teacher Xuan, the Sun Moon Empire is already in the center of chaos. Even Mingde Hall will soon enter war mode to prepare for the upcoming war."
Huo Yuhao looked at Xuan Ziwen seriously and said earnestly, "So, Teacher Xuan, would you be interested in joining us and making our ideals a reality?"
Looking at Huo Yuhao's serious face, Xuan Ziwen hesitated, which was uncharacteristic of him.
"Let's wait and see. What if the Sun Moon Empire really does what you say..."
Xuan Ziwen let out a deep breath and said weakly, "I will join you."
"Okay, Teacher Xuan, if you've made up your mind, please contact me using this, and I'll send someone to meet you."
As he spoke, Huo Yuhao handed Xuan Ziwen an iron plaque containing one of Huo Yuhao's spiritual imprints.
Soul-Nourishing Formation?
Xuan Ziwen played with the iron plate for a moment and easily recognized the soul guidance array engraved on it.
And the spiritual energy emanating from it.
"Alright, it's almost dawn, you should go back and get some rest too."
Xuan Ziwen waved his hand and started to shoo him away, "Look at your dark circles. If you don't get some rest, you might suddenly die. It'll be troublesome if Shrek investigates then."
After seeing Huo Yuhao off, Xuan Ziwen collected all the debris generated from making the soul tool in the room into the soul tool and stared blankly at a blueprint.
Those are blueprints for sealing baby bottles.
This is also one of the fruits of Xuan Ziwen's hard work over the years.
As the most advanced soul guidance technology research institute in the Sun Moon Empire, Mingde Hall is not only difficult to enter, but even more difficult to leave.
Feeling the eighty-nine level of soul power that had already reached within his body, Xuan Ziwen had already made a decision.
Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory but didn't sleep. Instead, he was pondering something very important.
That is, should we, like in the original story, knock on the bamboo pole before leaving?
This time, the extortion is not aimed at Huo Yuhao like the previous fool, where Huo Yuhao would enjoy most of the benefits. Instead, it will completely enrage Jing Hongchen, even to the point that Jing Hongchen will not hesitate to entrust evil soul masters to take action in order to reclaim the resources that Huo Yuhao has extorted.
When Shrek Academy needs to help, most of the resources they extorted will have to be handed over, so Huo Yuhao can only keep a limited amount of resources.
However, there was one material that Huo Yuhao cared about very much: the silver dragon scales.
This material may be used in the production of battle armor in the future. It is even possible that Silver Moonstone will need the materials of Silver Dragon to upgrade. Otherwise, the soul guide shield provided by Silver Moonstone can only be used up to the Soul Douluo level, which is the level of Soul Emperor and two-word battle armor.
"Since that's the case, let's make a deal out of this. It'll be good to give a copy of what we've researched to the Tang Clan as well, so it shows that I care about them."
(End of this chapter)